January 06, 2019

8: Week 7

​​God is love. True. God is holy, also true. You have free will, true again. God has shown us His great love for us in the fact that He gave us free will. Many will argue that we do not have it, that we are puppets of His plan, down to the socks we wear. But I think differently and see that the word demonstrates it differently too. I see that God has a plan despite our free will. That the God of all time and space knows the choices we will make and has planned accordingly. That in now way takes away the ability to choose.

​If God gives me the ability to choose then my worship of Him is an act of will, an act of love. If I do not have free will then my worship to Him is nothing more than Him pulling my string to recite some phrase or sing some song. I am reduced to the worship of a G.I. Joe with a talking feature. We choose everyday to serve Him, to love Him and to trust Him. He has already chosen to love us. That is very evident.